(A) For the purpose of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
ASTM SPECIFICATIONS. The standard specifications or methods of the American Society for Testing and Materials of the serial designation indicated by the number and unless otherwise stated refer to the latest adopted revision of said specification or method.
BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND (BOD). The quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation of organic matter under a standard laboratory procedure in five days at a temperature of 20ºC, expressed in milligrams per liter, or parts per million by weight. Laboratory determinations shall be made in accordance with procedures set forth in standard methods.
BOARD OF DIRECTORS or DIRECTORS. The Board of Directors of the city.
BUILDING DRAIN. The part of the lowest horizontal piping of a drainage system which receives the discharge from soil, waste, and other drainage pipes inside the walls of the building and conveys it to the building sewer, beginning five feet outside the inner face of the building wall.
BUILDING SEWER. The extension from the building drain to the property line or right-of-way line and connection with the public sewer service connection.
CHLORINE REQUIREMENT. The amount of chlorine which must be added to the sewage to produce a specified residual chlorine content, or to meet the requirements of some other objective, in accordance with procedures set forth in standard methods.
CITY. The City of Depoe Bay, Oregon. See the definition of DISTRICT.
COMBINED SEWER OR SYSTEM. A conduit or system of conduit in which both sewage and storm water are transported.
COMMERCIAL BUILDING. All buildings or premises used for any purpose other than a dwelling unit, but not an industrial user.
DISTRICT. The City of Depoe Bay; a municipal corporation of the state, having jurisdiction within certain defined boundaries as now or hereafter constituted, acting through the Board of Directors or any committee, body, official, or person to whom the Directors shall have lawfully delegated the power to act for or on behalf of the city. Unless a particular committee, body, official, or person is specifically designated in these rules and regulations, wherever herein action by the city is explicitly required or implied, it shall be understood to mean action by the secretary of the city or his or her duly authorized representative or agent.
DISTRICT SEWERAGE SYSTEM. All or any part of the facilities for collection, pumping, treating, and disposing of sewage as acquired, constructed, or used by the city.
DWELLING UNITS. Buildings and structures that are constructed and used primarily for residential purposes.
ENGINEER. The engineer duly appointed by the city or the owner of private sewers to supervise and direct the design and construction of local sewerage facilities, acting personally or through agents or assistants duly authorized by him or her, such agents, or assistants acting within the scope of the particular duties assigned to them.
GARBAGE. Solid wastes from the preparation, cooking, and dispensing of food, or from the handling, storage, and sale of produce.
INDUSTRIAL USER. All sewer users which discharge an INDUSTRIAL WASTE as defined below.
INDUSTRIAL WASTE.
(a) Any flow discharged into the sewer facilities by any non-governmental user of the city sewer system identified in the Standard Industrial Classification Manual 1972, Office of Management and Budget, as amended and supplemented, under the following divisions:
1. Division A: Agriculture, forestry, and fishing;
2. Division B: Mining;
3. Division D: Manufacturing;
4. Division E: Transportation, communications, electric, gas, and sanitary services; and
5. Division I: Services.
(b) A user in the divisions listed may be excluded if it is determined that it will introduce primarily segregated, domestic wastes, or wastes from sanitary conveniences.
INTERCEPTOR. A sanitary sewer which receives the flow from a number of trunk, main, or lateral sewers and transports it to a treatment plant or other point of disposal. Generally, an INTERCEPTOR collects the flow from a number of trunks, mains, or laterals which would otherwise discharge to a natural outlet.
LATERAL. A sanitary sewer which will receive the flow from service connections and discharge into a main.
LOCAL GOVERNMENT AGENCY. Any legally constituted city, town, county, special district, or other public agency under whose jurisdiction local sewerage facilities may be constructed or operated.
MAIN. A sanitary sewer which will receive the flow from one or more laterals and which will discharge into a trunk or interceptor.
NATURAL OUTLET. An outlet into a pond, lake, stream, river, ditch, watercourse, or other body of surface water.
pH. The logarithm of the reciprocal of the weight of hydrogen ions in grams per liter of solution. pH shall be determined by on of the procedures outlined in standard methods. (pH is a measure of acidity or alkalinity.)
PRESSURE SEWER. A sewer receiving sewage flow directly from a pump station and discharging under pressure into an interceptor, trunk, main, lateral, another pumping station, or treatment plant.
PRIVATE SEWER. A sanitary sewer, storm sewer, or combined sewer, exclusive of building sewers, which is neither within the jurisdiction of nor owned or operated by the city or a local government agency.
PROPERLY SHREDDED GARBAGE. The wastes from the preparation, cooking, and dispensing of foods that have been shredded to such degree that all particles will be carried freely under the flow and conditions normally prevailing in public sewers, with no particle greater than one-half inch in any dimension.
PUBLIC SEWER. A sanitary sewer, storm sewer, or combined sewer, exclusive of building sewers, owned or operated by the city or a local government agency.
SECRETARY. The city secretary of the city or his or her duly authorized representative or agent.
SANITARY SEWER. A pipe or conduit designed or used to transport sewage and to which storm water, surface, and ground waters are not admitted intentionally.
SERVICE CHARGE. The charges, normally monthly, levied on all users of the public sewer system for operation, maintenance, and other purposes as established by the Directors.
SERVICE CONNECTION. A public sewer which has been constructed to the approximate property line or right-of-way line from a public sewer for the sole purpose of providing a connection for the building sewer.
SEWAGE. A combination of the water-carried waste from residences, commercial buildings, institutions, and industrial establishments, together with such ground, surface, and storm waters a may be present.
SEWAGE DISPOSAL AGREEMENT. The agreement between the city and any local government agency or person providing for the delivery or receipt of sewage to or from the city sewerage system and th acceptance or delivery by the city of such sewage.
SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT. An arrangement of devices, structures. and equipment for treating sewage.
SEWER USER. Every person using any part of the city sewerage system.
SLUDGE. Any discharge of water, sewage, or industrial waste which in concentration of any given constituent or in quantity of flow exceeds for any period of duration longer than 15 minutes more than five times the average 24-hour concentration or flows during normal operation.
STANDARD METHODS. The examination and analytical procedures set forth in the most recent edition of Standard Methods for the Examination of Water and Wastewater, published by the American Public Health Association, the American Water Works Association, and the Water Pollution Control Federation.
STORM SEWER. A conduit designed or used exclusively to transport storm water.
STORM WATER. Waters on the surface of ground or underground resulting from rainfall or other natural precipitation.
SUSPENDED SOLIDS. Solids that either float on the surface, or are in suspension in water, sewage, or other liquids; and which are removable by laboratory filtering in accordance with procedures set forth in standard methods.
TRUNK. A major sanitary sewer into which more than two laterals or mains discharge and which transports the flow collected from laterals and mains to an interceptor, pumping station or treatment plant.
UNPOLLUTED WATER OR LIQUIDS. Any water or liquid containing none of the following: free or emulsified grease or oil; acids or alkalies; substances that may impart taste-and-odor or color characteristics; toxic or poisonous substances in suspension, colloidal state, or solution; odorous or otherwise obnoxious gases. It shall meet the current state standards for water used for recreation. Analytical determinations shall be made in accordance with procedures set forth in standard methods.
WATERCOURSE. A channel in which a flow of water occurs, either continuously or intermittently.
(B) Words, terms, or expressions peculiar to the art or science of sewerage not herein above defined shall have the respective meanings given in Glossary, Water, and Wastewater Control Engineering published in 1969, prepared by a joint committee representing American Public Health Association, American Society of Civil Engineers, American Water Works Association, and the Water Pollution Control Federation.
(Ord. 46, passed 4-8-1975; Ord. 47, passed 4-24-1975)